Cable TV signal merging with antenna signal.
Would an antenna amp be uni-directional and keep a cable TV signal from getting to the antenna even if there were a multiplexer or splitter connecting the two signals, used to merge the two signal for a TV?
Don't many people merge their cable and antenna signals like this?
A while back we discussed feeding a TV from a cable box and an antenna, and from two antennas of different design.
Someone tells me that the cable signal will go through the multiplexer
-- or maybe he said splitter -- to the antenna, and that would violate FCC rules.
I said that I didnt' think the little signal that comes out of a cable or satellite box would be strong enough to radiate interference even to the next door neighbor (antenna or not).
He said the FCC thinks otherwise and that it published
and then it talks about how homeowners either have to let the cable guy come in and look for the leakage or risk getting their cable disconnected.
A) What does it mean "plant"? That seems like a strange word to use, and like it refers to the cable company and doesn't include a customer's house.
B) Woudln't an antenna amp be uni-directional and keep the cable signal from getting to the antenna?
C) Don't many people merge their cable and antenna signals like this?
Thanks.